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“I’m trying to educate the people not to [retaliate],” he says, “but these aggressive Muslims must be brought to justice.”

“The world believes the made-up stories of the Muslim people. The Muslims make other people offer bribes to make up a story, to fabricate the news,” he says. “Their sole intention is to occupy the Rakhine state forever. They hide behind the masks of human rights.”

As I walk away from Wirathu’s office, he calls out to me. He has one last thing he wants me to know. “When the story comes to an end,” he says, “the world will know who are the bad guys and who are the good guys.”

One of the four aspects of right speech is to refrain from saying things here that divide these people from those, or saying things there to divide those people from these, i.e refraining from slanderous speech. If that second quote isn't something that incites division, then I'm a monkey's uncle.

Does anyone know what, if anything, has been done in line with the Vinaya in response to U Wirathu's public speeches? As I understand it from reading The Buddhist Monastic Code it seems that many of his statements which incite hatefulness in the population would be included under the Pacittiya rules such as Pc 2, Pc 3, Pc 54. There seems to be a procedure available for bhikkhus to admonish someone who has committed these offenses.

I think monks should have nothing with politics (at least this is my opinion at the moment) but

“I’m trying to educate the people not to [retaliate],” he says, “but these aggressive Muslims must be brought to justice.”

“The world believes the made-up stories of the Muslim people. The Muslims make other people offer bribes to make up a story, to fabricate the news,” he says. “Their sole intention is to occupy the Rakhine state forever. They hide behind the masks of human rights.”

As I walk away from Wirathu’s office, he calls out to me. He has one last thing he wants me to know. “When the story comes to an end,” he says, “the world will know who are the bad guys and who are the good guys.”

but this is golden - golden - so true - painfully true its like i said it myself

but these aggressive Muslims must be brought to justice

- this is the problematic part a bit because here he takes a stand -

The main thing - he tells reality he tells truth in all his words here except from the bring to justice which might be seen as action all the rest is truth and reality - some times telling the truth can prevent bloodshed - if the muslims there will know they can do what they want and the world thinks there the good guys then they will do more and more which will lead to more violence towards them - which will make the paradox that whoever supports them will cause them more damage

Please send merit to my dog named Mika who has passed away - thanks in advance

no sorry i cant - i am not sure if its ok with TOS for me to say stuff like this myself - but if his words can be brought to this forum and be criticized - the minimum that i expect to be ok to do is to show support for at least this monk - even though i dont know if monks should have anything to do with politics - but i know that monks all the time deal in politics some of them are even highly respected monks - so if they can say there truth then this monk is allowed to say his truth - i understand its not ok to criticize other religons in this forum - but its also not ok to go and criticize those people who do

purple planet wrote:no sorry i cant - i am not sure if its ok with TOS for me to say stuff like this myself - but if his words can be brought to this forum and be criticized - the minimum that i expect to be ok to do is to show support for at least this monk - even though i dont know if monks should have anything to do with politics - but i know that monks all the time deal in politics some of them are even highly respected monks - so if they can say there truth then this monk is allowed to say his truth - i understand its not ok to criticize other religons in this forum - but its also not ok to go and criticize those people who do

You can be as vague as you want but I think it's quite clear what your opinion on this is. Quite scary if you ask me, but also quite informative if one reads between the lines.

Petition wrote:
For the sake of our Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha, we call upon Tun Shin, attorney general of Myanmar to reign in this evil man, and bring him to justice for his crimes against our religion.

SN 35.88: Punna Sutta wrote:
"Lord, there is a country called Sunaparanta. I am going to live there."

"Punna, the Sunaparanta people are fierce. They are rough. If they insult and ridicule you, what will you think?"

"If they insult and ridicule me, I will think, 'These Sunaparanta people are civilized, very civilized, in that they don't hit me with their hands.' That is what I will think, O Blessed One. That is what I will think, O One Well-gone."

"But if they hit you with their hands, what will you think?"

"...I will think, 'These Sunaparanta people are civilized, very civilized, in that they don't hit me with a clod.'..."

"But if they hit you with a clod...?"

"...I will think, 'These Sunaparanta people are civilized, very civilized, in that they don't hit me with a stick.'..."

"But if they hit you with a stick...?"

"...I will think, 'These Sunaparanta people are civilized, very civilized, in that they don't hit me with a knife.'..."

"But if they hit you with a knife...?"

"...I will think, 'These Sunaparanta people are civilized, very civilized, in that they don't take my life with a sharp knife.'..."

"But if they take your life with a sharp knife...?"

"If they take my life with a sharp knife, I will think, 'There are disciples of the Blessed One who — horrified, humiliated, and disgusted by the body and by life — have sought for an assassin, but here I have met my assassin without searching for him.' That is what I will think, O Blessed One. That is what I will think, O One Well-gone."

"Good, Punna, very good. Possessing such calm and self-control you are fit to dwell among the Sunaparantans. Now it is time to do as you see fit."

MN 21: Kakacupama Sutta wrote:
"Monks, there are these five aspects of speech by which others may address you: timely or untimely, true or false, affectionate or harsh, beneficial or unbeneficial, with a mind of good-will or with inner hate. Others may address you in a timely way or an untimely way. They may address you with what is true or what is false. They may address you in an affectionate way or a harsh way. They may address you in a beneficial way or an unbeneficial way. They may address you with a mind of good-will or with inner hate. In any event, you should train yourselves: 'Our minds will be unaffected and we will say no evil words. We will remain sympathetic to that person's welfare, with a mind of good will, and with no inner hate. We will keep pervading him with an awareness imbued with good will and, beginning with him, we will keep pervading the all-encompassing world with an awareness imbued with good will — abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will.' That's how you should train yourselves.

MN 21: Kakacupama Sutta wrote:
"Monks, even if bandits were to carve you up savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, he among you who let his heart get angered even at that would not be doing my bidding. Even then you should train yourselves: 'Our minds will be unaffected and we will say no evil words. We will remain sympathetic, with a mind of good will, and with no inner hate. We will keep pervading these people with an awareness imbued with good will and, beginning with them, we will keep pervading the all-encompassing world with an awareness imbued with good will — abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will.' That's how you should train yourselves.

MN 117: Maha-cattarisaka Sutta wrote:
Of those, right view is the forerunner. And how is right view the forerunner? One discerns wrong speech as wrong speech, and right speech as right speech. This is one's right view. And what is wrong speech? Lying, divisive tale-bearing, abusive speech, & idle chatter. This is wrong speech.

"And what is right speech? Right speech, I tell you, is of two sorts: There is right speech with effluents, siding with merit, resulting in acquisitions; there is right speech that is noble, without effluents, transcendent, a factor of the path.

"And what is the right speech with effluents, siding with merit, resulting in acquisitions? Abstaining from lying, from divisive tale-bearing, from abusive speech, & from idle chatter. This is the right speech with effluents, siding with merit, resulting in acquisitions.

"And what is the right speech that is noble, without effluents, transcendent, a factor of the path? The abstaining, desisting, abstinence, avoidance of the four forms of verbal misconduct in one developing the noble path whose mind is noble, whose mind is without effluents, who is fully possessed of the noble path. This is the right speech that is noble, without effluents, transcendent, a factor of the path.

"One makes an effort for the abandoning of wrong speech & for entering right speech: This is one's right effort. One is mindful to abandon wrong speech & to enter & remain in right speech: This is one's right mindfulness. Thus these three qualities — right view, right effort, & right mindfulness — run & circle around right speech.

I think it's more important to first focus on the real core of the issue: did he commit a parajika?

If he did, he is no longer a monk, even though he wears the robes. If he didn't, calling him the burmese Bin Laden is an absurd exageration.

I don't usualy follow the conflict, so can someone clarify if he did commit a parajika?

"He turns his mind away from those phenomena and, having done so, inclines his mind to the property of deathlessness: 'This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.' " - Jhana Sutta

Ugh. So this is the source of the dredging of my old somewhat reactionary views. Yes that yellow neck needs to be muffled before he causes more deaths and destruction of livelyhood of both Burmese ethnic minorities and similarly violent reprisals.

I still wish he would stop, as he is tarring our peaceful religion with a brush it doesn't deserve, but these days I would echo what Dan said in the thread, that any such counter movement to the evil man should be based upon us affirming to the world that Buddhism has nothing to do with the violent and destructive agenda of a man who is in all probability, trending towards a long stay in avici, rather than what I had said, which was probably based upon anger.

These days, I really feel like a Buddhists first job a should be to reach stream entry at the least (so they can help others too) first, and at least for me, such topics as these tend to lead to passion, something we all must subdue if we wish to progress.

Metta
Jack

"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta

ok just to clearify - because i was told im "vague" "back pedalling" and "bla bla blaing"

so :

1 . i dont support everything the monk says and does - so i was un-clear wrriten what i wrote - i support the words the monk said in the quote - and i do think that monks should stay out of politics

2 . yes i dont "like" islam and the fact that im from israel (which was suggested as if im hiding the fact - people are affected by where they live - people from the uk tend to be very anti-israel in there political issues - but i never would have tryed to imply to someone who lives in the uk that his views are not valid or biased because his from there because everyone is biased even if they dont know it ) - just makes me know him better - but i dont like islam - i like muslims i dont like the concept - and like the people

3 . i don think its ok to debate this issue in a forum which is censoring bad talking about religon - because its like a boxing match with one contestant with his hands tide

4 . i understand why its not ok to talk bad about other religons - but it dosnt seem fair to talk about this conflicts which clearly have religon at there core -

so again i understand the censoring (not fully agree with it - but i partly do) - it bothered me to see threads that talk against people who talk against islam while there is the censoring - i dont really know the situation fully in burma

Please send merit to my dog named Mika who has passed away - thanks in advance